THE ETHIC COMPOSITION OF THE AND THEIR SOCIO-ECONOMIC LIFE IN THE ZARAFSHAN VALLEY(LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH AND CENTURIES)

Abstract

In this article, the ethnic composition of the population who settled in the Zarafshan valley at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries was studied. Favorable natural and geographical and climatic condition of the valley Zarafshan for crafts and livestock wascaused to move and settle of many various ethnic groups and these ethnic groupsmaintained economic, cultural and trading relationships and they did their living by partial farming as permanently resident and they spoke in Turkic language and contribute to form ethno tropological substract of the local population.